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The Wedding Present / 24 Songs

One seven-inch for each month in 2022

By Paul Sinclair

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Win a subscription to 24 Songs (see below)

The Wedding Present have announced a new project for 2022 called, simply, 24 Songs.

The idea, which echoes what the band did with Hit Parade in 1992, is that each month next year, The Wedding Present will release a seven-inch single with two new songs, giving a total of, you guessed it, 24 songs for the year!

This initiative sees David Gedge writing with Sleeper guitarist Jon Stewart for the first time, and the first release, We Should Be Together, is a duet featuring David and Louise Wener. It is backed with another new track called ‘Don’t Give Up Without A Fight’ which combines classic Wedding Present feistiness with a Krautrock finale.

Talking about this concept, David Gedge says: ““Even though The Wedding Present have never been known for taking the easy route, the idea of recording 24 tracks and releasing them in this way could seem daunting to any band.

I’ve been utterly inspired by the music that has been written since Jon and Melanie joined the group

David Gedge

However, I’ve been utterly inspired by the music that has been written since Jon and Melanie joined the group. The thought of celebrating this exciting new line-up with an exciting new series has motivated us all… and I suppose we also didn’t want any of these songs to be hidden away in the middle of an album!”

The idea is that fans subscribe to the 24 Songs and get sent a single each month, although there is also the option to buy individually and singles will also be available via participating record shops. All the details can be found here.

SDE competition!

SDE is excited to announce that we are giving away a 24 Songs subscription to one reader which is worth at least £175. The competition is open to all and if you’d like to enter, do so using the poll below. The winner will be announced at some point in November.

This competition has now ended. See who won by following this link.

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33 thoughts on “The Wedding Present / 24 Songs”

  3. With a loyal fan base it is an amazing commercial strategy!
    Every 30 days they will be present as the best seller of the month (and probably the Year) sharing the podium with Taylor Swift, Adele, Bieber or Sheeran. Chapeau!

  5. The £175 upfront subscription includes a numbered box which is £10 by itself (plus delivery!) and, if you sign up by 3rd December, a signed postcard.
    As the greatest band still in existence I would say that this is something to look forward to and that the price is reasonable based on current levels. For instance the double LP by The War On Drugs included in the “out this week section” of SDE is £39.99. For 2 pieces of vinyl. I don’t think the manufacturing costs of records differ that much between 7″ and 12″ do they?
    There were 10,000 of each of the Hit Parade singles back in 1992 and they did indeed all chart, briefly. If they sell that number in a week that would get them into a physical sales chart now I guess but not sure that it would outdo 20 million streams of whatever nonsense Adele or Ed Sheeran are planning to unleash upon the world.
    The Wedding Present are always very good at trying to keep their prices low and their quality high on releases so I would expect these to be worth the outlay. Don’t expect them to rise in price though as some of the 1992 singles were once selling for around the £40 mark and now they can be bought for a tenth of that…

  6. It’s a great idea , I’m not familiar enough with the band to want this but if your a fan this would be an instabuy! I doubt any of the singles will bother the chart though as they’d need to sell quite a few each month to graze the top 40 due to streaming

  7. Last time they did this most of the singles briefly went top 20 as loyal fans bought each one on release day, before hurtling out of the hit parade – an eerie foreshadowing of today’s LP charts where day-one SDE sales and multiple versions can get heritage acts or cult bands to no.1 and they can pretend they are bigger than Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift for a week before the LP rockets back down to the low hundreds or absolute zero.
    Depending on how many units they make, The Weddoes might end up top 10 every month popping up among all the “Feat.” artists or even go to number 1 this time around.

  8. Ash did something similar in the early 2000’s, a new 7″ vinyl single each one bearing a different letter of the alphabet, I stopped buying them round about the letter L as I thought it was too expensive and they were only £3 each back then!

  11. Only 24 songs in a single year? Pah! Nerina Pallot released a 5-track EP every month for a year a while back (2016, I think it was).

    And Clive Gregson had committed to releasing an ALBUM a month in 2020 before COVID scuppered his plans.

    C’mon, Pressies, where’s your ambition !?!

    :)

  14. I well remember collecting the original Hit Parade series back in 1992. One original song b/w a fine cover version. Every month it was down to my local HMV to pick up the new single, and pre-order the next one. Made the year fly by, and whatever else happened in each of those 12 months, you always knew that there would be a new Weddo’s single to look forward to. Still got them all, but I don’t think I’m going to repeat this again. Getting to any record shop is bloody difficult these days due to various family commitments/problems.

  15. Paul, the competition says “24 Years” instead of “24 Songs”. I hope it’s not going to take until 2046 until the winner receives the last 7” … ;-)

  18. A wonderful band that have never really made a lot of money and treat their fans very well so silly money for something that you don’t need to buy, good luck to them. David Gedge writes the same song in a thousand different ways and should be a household name. I look forward to the collected album with bonus CD & DVD.
    Lovely lead song.

    1. In what way….. All bands need to get their music out there and as they have been successful before why not do it again….hardly a “Stunt”

    2. Says a man who reads a website dedicated to the promotion of box-shaped publicity stunts.

      All but a tiny handful of musicians have a precarious cash flow, and their position has been worsened in recent years by file-sharing, punitive returns on streaming and a pandemic that put the live circuit out of reach for over a year. There are household names out there plugging away who do it because they need to, who’re well past the age when they can consider a viable career change.

      Please forgive the painstakingly reasonable David Gedge for having bills to pay and a pension to secure. The vast majority of Wedding Present fans who’ve never been short-changed for their loyalty won’t begrudge the man a penny.

  21. I suppose the price of a new 7″ would be into double figures now, and the addition of P&P would take it to £14.58 a month. How much was a new 7″ in 1992? £1.99? That would be about £4.50 today, accounting for inflation.

  23. One of my favourite bands – if you go to the Scopitones website and click on the forthcoming concerts section, you’ll see one of my photographs at the top of the screen – but £175 is a bit too rich for me, so winning a subscription would be amazing. Thanks for the opportunity, Paul.

    1. Oooh Ouch, I could understand a tenner per single, so £120, but that is pushing it a bit! I guess there’s P&P on top of that, but still. I’ll wait for the CD in 2023 :)

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